polestar
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊlˌstɑr/
:
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- Navigators used the polestar to find their way home during dark nights.
Examples
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Don't tell me about polestar.
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The center of the plaza is the polestar, Polaris.
Academic text (2004) -
I tried to steer by polestar, but everything gets mixed and I lost it.
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You follow those two down about four times... and that one there is the polestar, I'm fairly certain.
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This is the first clue that Sierra is something special to Tierwater and, indeed, she becomes a kind of polestar throughout the entire narrative.
Blog text (12) -
Through some magic I've forgotten, maybe for having helped to satisfy the unbelievable thirst of a runaway slave, the tin pan came to be placed in the night sky, from which it guided her, by pointing to the polestar, to the safe haven of the Industrial North.
Fiction book (1997) -
The polestar, known as Polaris, has guided sailors across the seas for centuries.
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In the northern hemisphere, the polestar remains a constant point in the sky.
Synonyms
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A bright star almost still in the northern sky that people use to find north
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A bright star in the north sky called the North Star that people use to find direction
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The star nearly above Earth's North Pole used to find direction at night
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A bright star called Polaris that sits almost above Earth's north pole and shows true north
A star sailors use to find direction at night
A star used to find direction, for example by sailors at sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Polestar comes from the parts pole and star, meaning a 'star near the pole'. Because this star stays almost still in the sky and points north, sailors used it to find their way, so polestar now means the star that shows north.